21-02-2015, 11:13 AM
[quote=Paul Rigby]20 February 2015 2:42 PM
Putin's Bite is Worse than His Bark - should we have been surprised?
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2...l#comments
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He then adds: I cannot see inside the heads of leading Russian politicians but I do not believe that Russia wanted or needed this to happen. My understanding is that Russia was dragged into it. Dragging Russia into the conflict is a way of making Ukraine a permanent hotspot of global tensions and creating permanent instability in a country that deserves, after decades of suffering under communism, a quiet and positive evolution.' [/quote]
So bloody true.
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In any case, the putsch against Yanukovych followed soon afterwards. The report recounts By February, Sir Tony Brenton explained, the "Russians had decided that there was a great western plot against them, probably more American than EU, to displace them from their oldest and closest friend, Ukraine". 291 The trope of a western-fomented plot was one that recurred in Russian political thinking: in the words of Dr Alexander Libman, Associate of Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, in the "eyes of the Russian leadership, Euromaidan is just one more step in the sequence of events, which were initiated by the West'". [/quote]
I love this guy's language. Very diplomatic but he cuts right to the point. Of course the Russians concluded that the west were responsible. What other conclusions were remotely possible.
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Yes, the Russia we thought we had'. But that Russia had been, for many years, an illusion. President Putin's speech in Munich in February 2007 was a clear change of tone, for anyone who wanted to know. But it was ignored. In the end, we tested him by action, and found that , after all, he did bite, and his bite was worse than his bark his bark, an unusual thing in modern politics. Now we complain about hs teeth, but is that a rational attitude towards events.[/QUOTE]
A damn good article by Hitchens. :
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And about time that an honest journalist stood up and got counted.
Putin's Bite is Worse than His Bark - should we have been surprised?
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2...l#comments
[QUOTE]
He then adds: I cannot see inside the heads of leading Russian politicians but I do not believe that Russia wanted or needed this to happen. My understanding is that Russia was dragged into it. Dragging Russia into the conflict is a way of making Ukraine a permanent hotspot of global tensions and creating permanent instability in a country that deserves, after decades of suffering under communism, a quiet and positive evolution.' [/quote]
So bloody true.
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In any case, the putsch against Yanukovych followed soon afterwards. The report recounts By February, Sir Tony Brenton explained, the "Russians had decided that there was a great western plot against them, probably more American than EU, to displace them from their oldest and closest friend, Ukraine". 291 The trope of a western-fomented plot was one that recurred in Russian political thinking: in the words of Dr Alexander Libman, Associate of Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, in the "eyes of the Russian leadership, Euromaidan is just one more step in the sequence of events, which were initiated by the West'". [/quote]
I love this guy's language. Very diplomatic but he cuts right to the point. Of course the Russians concluded that the west were responsible. What other conclusions were remotely possible.
[quote]
Yes, the Russia we thought we had'. But that Russia had been, for many years, an illusion. President Putin's speech in Munich in February 2007 was a clear change of tone, for anyone who wanted to know. But it was ignored. In the end, we tested him by action, and found that , after all, he did bite, and his bite was worse than his bark his bark, an unusual thing in modern politics. Now we complain about hs teeth, but is that a rational attitude towards events.[/QUOTE]
A damn good article by Hitchens. :
:And about time that an honest journalist stood up and got counted.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14